“There’s certainly an impact here in the short term, and I think longer term there are going to be impacts,” Cisco's Bob Everson said.

“5G in the enterprise space is really a tale of those who will move forward and those who will pause,” said Dan Hays at PwC.

HPE geared up for a Cisco fight; Ericsson eyed 5G core growth after posting Q2 gains; and HPE tapped Interxion for GreenLake in Europe.

While some data centers have postponed deployments, cloud providers like Google and Amazon are moving forward with 400 Gb/s Ethernet.

While sales of legacy equipment are in decline, Ericsson reported a strong demand for its cloud-native and 5G portfolio, including multiple large customer wins on the 5G core.

Vodafone expects to kick fossil fuels to the curb and power its European network with 100% renewable electricity by this time next year.

The vendor signed a deal with colocation provider Interxion to host its GreenLake cloud service in Europe.

HPE's acquisition of Silver Peak puts the vendor in a unique position to directly challenge Cisco in the enterprise networking market, said Dell'Oro Group's Shin Umeda.

The service can be deployed directly from the Azure marketplace and is designed to tie into Barracuda's existing next-generation firewalls.

The companies are also exploring 5G use cases for massive IoT applications, Verizon's Sampath Sowmyanarayan said.

VMware Cloud beefed up AWS updates; Google eyed a bigger share of 5G business; and Fortinet debuted multi-cloud SD-WAN.

The chipmaker's second-generation processors are designed to tackle artificial intelligence models too complex for GPU-based acceleration.

The Trump administration, which has already effectively killed Huawei’s ambitions in the U.S. market, applauded the decision.

The latest VMware Cloud on AWS updates are targeted at furthering the cost benefits of using the nearly three-year-old service.

Fortinet claims by eliminating the need to backhaul traffic to a private data center, customers can enjoy can enjoy higher performance, better visibility, and less complexity.

Google Cloud stoked security; Former AppDynamics CEO tracked DevSecOps, launched Traceable; and 5G needs a reality check.

Google's mobile edge cloud allows operators to build virtualized network functions and cloud-native functions for the core, evolved packet core, and radio access network.

The vendor claims 359 4G LTE operators have deployed Nokia frequency division duplex radios that can be upgraded to 5G with the new software.

Cisco bought AppDynamics, an application performance management company, for $3.7 billion in 2017.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; Verizon grabbed Google Cloud for its multi-cloud strategy; and Rackspace filed for an IPO.

Strategically, the acquisition stands to improve Aruba's standing in the crowded and highly competitive SD-WAN market

Microsoft acquired CyberX; VMware lassoed Lastline; Equinix plotted a $750M Canadian expansion; plus the latest VC/M&A news from June.

Dozens of mobile network operators are posing as 5G carriers but none of them are the real thing. Not yet at least.

The IPO represents a return to the public market for the managed cloud services provider, which went private in 2016 under a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global